Fichardstrasse

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Fichardstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Frankfurt am Main
Fichardstrasse
Corner of Bornwiesenweg
Basic data
place Frankfurt am Main
District Northrend-West
Created 1865
Connecting roads Oeder Weg (east),
Eschersheimer Landstrasse (west)
Cross streets Bornwiesenweg
Technical specifications
Street length 421 m

The Fichardstraße is a residential street in the Frankfurt district of Northrend .

Naming

The Fichardstraße was after the Frankfurt jurist Johann Fichard (* 1512, † 1581), a leading German jurists of the 16th century named, whose work not only the Frankfurt city law for centuries, but also the German civil , criminal and procedural law for Part of it until the end of the 19th century.

location

Fichardstrasse runs between Oeder Weg in the east and Eschersheimer Landstrasse in the west. It is located in a 30 km / h zone and is designated as a one-way street in the east-west direction; it is open to bicycle traffic in both directions. As part of a residents' parking zone, the parking space may only be used by residents during rush hour.

history

The street was laid out in 1865 between the existing streets Baustraße and Finkenhofstraße , making it one of the oldest streets in Frankfurt's Nordend. The development alternates between preserved houses of classicism , neo-renaissance and art nouveau , of which house numbers 34 to 50 in particular are completely designated as architectural monuments . Some vacant lots were filled with buildings from the 1950s and 1960s. Only a few small companies are located on Fichardstrasse.

A tram line through Fichardstrasse was planned as early as 1886 in order to better develop the newly created Frankfurt north-west district between Reuterweg, Eschersheimer Landstrasse and Oeder Weg. The line was to run from Opernplatz through Leerbachstrasse, Grüneburgweg, Fichardstrasse and Bornwiesenweg and at Adlerflychtplatz it was to be connected to the existing tram of the Frankfurt tram company . The planning dragged on, however, because the city council approved an alternative route over Hochstraße, Eschersheimer Landstraße and Querstraße.

The planning would also have resulted in a widening of the street. The residents protested against the necessary expropriation of their front gardens and made excessive demands for compensation, whereupon the project was finally abandoned in 1901. In the meantime, a steam tram of the Frankfurter Lokalbahn had been opened on Eschersheimer Landstrasse in 1889 , which was sold to the city in 1901 and gradually converted to electrical operation by 1909, so that Fichardstrasse was touched by local public transport at both ends.

In March 1944, the residential area in the southwestern Nordend was badly hit in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main . Even before the end of the war in 1945, plans were drawn up to widen Fichardstrasse in order to create a street breakthrough for an “Inner Ring” that was to run along Grüneburgweg, Fichardstrasse and Hermannstrasse. The plans were roughly presented on May 29, 1947 by City Planning Director Werner Hebebrand in a magistrate's meeting on the subject of “Current State of Urban Planning”, but were immediately discarded. Such an extensive redesign of the main traffic trains without taking the urban districts into account was not appropriate to the short-term requirements of the destroyed city. At the same meeting it was also decided that a comprehensive restoration of the largely destroyed city center was out of the question. The reconstruction should be limited to a few striking monuments, namely the Romans , the cathedral , the Carmelite monastery , the Dominican monastery , St. Paul's Church and the main front .

Single building

A striking building is the late classicist villa at Fichardstrasse 46 with its back staircase and asymmetrical balcony projection . It has been used as a parsonage by the Protestant church since 1899 .

From 1905 to 1933 Pastor Wilhelm Veit (1872–1940) had his official residence here. He was pastor at the Katharinenkirche and one of the outstanding representatives of liberal theology in Frankfurt, who addressed a large audience, especially among the urban bourgeoisie, with his dogma-critical sermons on topics such as “Is religion something morbid?”. He published many of his sermons, but also theological considerations, under the title Letters from Fichardstrasse . Veit and his officiating brother August Wilhelm Fresenius, who had been in office since 1924, came from the German national milieu and were critical of the emerging National Socialism and the movement of German Christians . After the National Socialists came to power , Fresenius joined the State Brotherhood Council of the Confessing Church in Nassau-Hessen. Along with Pastor Karl Veidt, he was one of the most prominent opponents of the German Christians in the Frankfurt church struggle.

In March 1944 the rectory was badly damaged by aerial bombs and the Katharinenkirche was destroyed. Nevertheless, the rectory became a community center after the end of the war, as the undamaged second community center on Myliusstrasse had been confiscated by the American occupation forces and assigned to a restricted military area around the IG-Farben building . Until the reconstruction of the Katharinenkirche, the parish services took place at Fichardstraße 46. From 1950 to 1953, alongside Fresenius, Katharina Staritz also worked here , who was the first woman to be ordained a pastor in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

Since the reconstruction of the Katharinenkirche and a community center in Leerbachstrasse in 1954, the rectory at Fichardstrasse 46 has been used by the Protestant Petersgemeinde , and the ADFC info shop is also located here .

Trivia

House number 55 was used in 1980 as a location for the ZDF film The Longest Second with Armin Mueller-Stahl . The highlight of the shooting was the demolition of a Mercedes in a parking bay across the street, which had to be repeated several times. In addition, scenes of the episodes of the crime scene produced by HR were filmed in the property on Fichardstrasse and in the Bornwiesenweg crossing it , such as episode 467 "Innocent" from 2001, although these were not fully incorporated into the final version of the program.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Portal GeoInfo Frankfurt , city ​​map
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .
  3. ↑ H. Winterberg: "Fichard, Johann" in: Handwortbuch zur deutschen Rechtsgeschichte , Volume 1, Berlin 1971, column 1128
  4. ^ August Ravenstein's Geometric Plan of Frankfurt am Main (1861)
  5. ↑ "Frankfurt town houses of the 19th century by Günther Vogt, 1970" at Frankfurt-Nordend.de
  6. ↑ Annual directory of monuments in the north end of Frankfurt
  7. ^ "Studies on Frankfurt History 37 - Urban Development and Urban Policy in Wilhelminian Frankfurt" by Jörg R. Köhler, Waldemar Kramer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1995. ISBN 3-7829-0457-5 at Frankfurt-Nordend.de
  8. ^ Frolinde Balser : From rubble to a European center: History of the city of Frankfurt am Main 1945–1989 . Ed .: Frankfurter Historical Commission (=  publications of the Frankfurter Historical Commission . Volume XX ). Jan Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-1210-1 , p. 62 f .
  9. ↑ Fichardstrasse 46
  10. ↑ See Joachim Proescholdt (Ed.): St. Katharinen zu Frankfurt am Main . Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1981. ISBN 3-7829-0240-8
  11. ↑ The longest second in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 20 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 43 ″  E